[scribus] Announce: Scribus 1.4.0 Released
Vladimir Savic
vladimir.firefly.savic at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 00:54:03 UTC 2012
Great news! Congratulations from Serbia!
Vlada
On 01/02/2012 12:23 AM, Renato Petrovic wrote:
> Many thanks to The Scribus Team!
>
> Renato Petrović,
> Belgrade, Serbia
>
> 2012/1/2 Craig Bradney<cbradney at scribus.info>
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> We'd like to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.0 with the below
>> information about the release,
>> please also see http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.0_Release for the
>> coloured wiki format.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Craig
>>
>>
>> Scribus 1.4.0 Released
>> ======================
>>
>> After almost 4 years of intensive work, the Scribus Team (www.scribus.net)
>> has released the new
>> stable version 1.4.0 of the Open Source desktop publishing program
>> Scribus. Given this is the first
>> major stable release in some time, this document outlines improvements
>> over the last number of
>> versions, rather than since just the last one. The idea is to form a
>> general comparison between
>> this and the last stable release.
>>
>> In summary, more than 2000 feature requests and bugs have been resolved
>> since the development of
>> this new version started.
>>
>>
>> Major changes and improvements in comparison to the last stable version
>> 1.3.3.14 are:
>>
>> - 1.4.0 is based on the Qt4 application framework. The initial
>> transition from Qt3 was performed
>> quite quickly, but fine tuning for cross-platform compatibility and
>> taking advantage of new
>> features took quite some time. As a result, Scribus now runs equally
>> reliable on all supported
>> platforms.
>> - Thanks to the port to Qt4, the Scribus Team now also provides install
>> files for Mac OS X 10.5
>> or later, as well as a native version for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation.
>> Additionally, thanks to
>> feedback from users of other UNIX platforms, Scribus will build and
>> run on more of those
>> platforms as well.
>> - Feature enhancements to object handling (e.g. transform tools like in
>> advanced drawing
>> programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook
>> and the Image Manager.
>> - Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles,
>> optical margins, or
>> glyph extension. Undo/Redo is finally available for almost all
>> text-related actions, and a new
>> script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation
>> marks based on language
>> settings. Usability improvements include better cursor placement and
>> movement, faster layout
>> on canvas and interaction between linked frames.
>> - New features for vector objects, like Boolean path operations, vector
>> effects or a line style
>> editor.
>> - Major improvements to the handling of fills, like pattern fill, more
>> gradient types, support
>> for external color palette formats (AI, EPS, GPL, PostScript, SOC),
>> and many new color
>> palettes, including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp
>> studio, as well as
>> national/government standards.
>> - A new frame type called "Render Frame" allows for rendering (and
>> subsequently export) the
>> output of every program that can create PostScript, PDF or PNG files
>> via the command
>> line (e.g. LaTeX, Lilypond, POV-Ray) inside Scribus. The initial
>> version of which was
>> developed as a project for Google Summer of Code and this project has
>> developed to allow
>> import of externally produced documents, scientific publications and
>> formulas. More renderers
>> can be added with a simple configuration file.
>> - Vector import filters: Scribus 1.4.0 provides new import filters for
>> the following file
>> formats: Adobe Illustrator (both EPS and PDF-based), Macintosh Picture
>> (PICT),
>> Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG),
>> Kivio Stencils (SML),
>> and DIA Shapes (SHAPE).
>> - Regarding bitmap images, the handling of Photoshop files has seen many
>> major improvements,
>> like support of multiple clipping paths or PSD layers. The Image
>> Manager has been rewritten,
>> and new non-destructive image effects have been added. Moreover,
>> Scribus 1.4.0 now supports
>> EXIF data in images, and import of Windows and OS/2 bitmaps (BMP) has
>> been re-enabled.
>> - Among the major enhancements to Scribus's pre-press features, printing
>> marks and the display
>> of ink coverage in the Print Preview are the most important. In
>> addition, Scribus now enables
>> conversion of spot colors to process colors during PDF and PostScript
>> export with a single
>> click.
>> - PDF export has seen major improvements as well. Scribus can now export
>> to PDF 1.5, including
>> PDF layers. Another new feature is the option to embed EPS and PDF
>> files in exported PDFs as
>> an alternative to rasterizing them. Also, both font embedding and
>> substitution have been
>> improved.
>> - For color management, Scribus 1.4.0 now supports both littleCMS
>> version 1 and 2. It's also
>> possible to enable color management with a single click from the main
>> window.
>> - Additionally, the Scribus Team has added a feature to emulate color
>> blindness on screen.
>> - Hundreds of minor and major usability improvements have been added.
>> - The included scripts have been updated, including the addition of the
>> "Autoquote" script in
>> the Script menu to convert straight quotes in a text frame to correct
>> quotation marks for
>> many languages.
>> - Scribus 1.4.0 is being shipped with many more templates than previous
>> versions.
>> - The content of the Help System has been rewritten and updated.
>>
>> Now that Scribus 1.4.0 has been released, the Scribus Team will focus on
>> stabilizing the 1.5
>> development branch, which will comprise amazing new features like support
>> for PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-4
>> and PDF/E, Mesh Gradients, native PDF import, XAR import, a completely
>> rewritten table
>> implementation, a rewritten text system, and much more. The 1.4.x version
>> is now in
>> stable/maintenance mode, which means few features will be backported from
>> the 1.5 development
>> branch. In general, only bugs will be fixed in subsequent 1.4.x versions,
>> along with new content,
>> like new translations, new templates, or additional color palettes.
>>
>>
>> Important Information
>> =====================
>>
>> If you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team members use
>> the same Scribus version
>> – this will avoid many headaches and extra work.
>>
>> Users should be warned that 1.3.3.x cannot open 1.4.0 files.
>>
>> The Scribus Team recommends that all distributions package Scribus 1.4.0
>> as "Scribus" (and replace
>> the outdated Scribus 1.3.3.14).
>>
>> The 1.4.x branch will now be developed in the Version14x branch of our
>> Subversion repository,
>> leaving the Version135 one behind. This also fixes the version numbering
>> issues of the past, with
>> just two main versions, 1.4.x and 1.5.x
>>
>> The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements
>> in the development
>> branch 1.5.x.
>>
>> We recommend the additional packaging of 1.5 only if it is marked as a
>> development version and can
>> be installed alongside an existing Scribus 1.4.0 (for example as
>> scribus-ng).
>>
>> The English online help has been mostly updated to match the new features.
>> Translations have
>> temporarily disabled, since they need to be synchronised with the English
>> version once the update
>> is complete. Further updates will be included with subsequent 1.4 releases.
>>
>>
>>
>> Primary Download Location
>> =========================
>>
>> - Installation packages and the source code are available here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.0/
>> - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net/
>> - Fedora RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>> - OpenSUSE, Mandriva and SLED RPMs:
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>> - All download options are listed at:
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download
>>
>>
>> Download Verification
>> =====================
>>
>> Description File Name Sha1sum
>> Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.bz2
>> af38413420eaa783d20f2db189aef408be844048
>> Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.xz
>> 0e3afb98a56084c2938a8402df2d89214c42b809
>> OS X Leopard or higher (DMG) scribus-1.4.0.dmg
>> eae5adacdc207f4bda6136dc48c26b83dcbf6b9a
>> OS X Leopard or higher (PKG) scribus-1.4.0.pkg
>> 64df9a61b33183dbc85b9a3090a648c75f320640
>> Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.4.0-windows.exe
>> 268b9e8658528677ceac6252dae348c49643d159
>> OS/2 / eComStation scribus-1.4.0-os2ecs.zip
>> 4fe0b3cf562cda4e1b78bf89a2340bb868610014
>>
>>
>>
>> Credits
>> =======
>>
>> The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their
>> continued hosting of all of
>> the Scribus websites.
>> We are also grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
>> and
>> Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.
>> As of July 2011, the Scribus Team is also pleased to welcome Resene
>> Colours (New Zealand) and
>> Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of colour
>> palettes which are part
>> of the 1.4.0 release.
>> Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users,
>> translators, testers and
>> contributors who helped us with this important release.
>>
>>
>> About Scribus
>> =============
>>
>> Scribus is an Open Source program for professional page layout with
>> press-ready output to PDF files.
>> Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports
>> professional publishing features,
>> such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color
>> management, and versatile PDF
>> creation.
>>
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